President Donald Trump has found a friend from Kentucky amid massive backlash this week on both sides of the aisle over his comments on Russia.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul defended Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling reporters Monday in Louisville that “people who say we shouldn’t talk, I think are wrong. I think we should have conversations" about Russia.

On Monday, Trump told the world he accepted Putin's notion that there was no Russian influence in the 2016 election, contradicting U.S. intelligence agencies and ignoring 12 indictments issued by special prosecutor Robert Mueller to Russian nationals accused of hacking into Democrats' computers.

Paul said in an interview Tuesday morning with CBS that Mueller's investigation has left the president rightfully jaded about the U.S. intelligence community.

“The president has undergone an onslaught, a year, a year and a half, of a partisan investigation accusing him somehow of colluding with Russia,” Paul told CBS. “I think he’s sensitive to that.”

Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that he was happy to have an ally in Paul:

"Thank you @RandPaul, you really get it! The President has gone through a year and a half of totally partisan investigations - what’s he supposed think?”

Thank you @RandPaul, you really get it! “The President has gone through a year and a half of totally partisan investigations - what’s he supposed think?”

Members of Kentucky's delegation in Congress, as well as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, were quick to decry Trump's comments on Russia.

“As I’ve said repeatedly, the Russians are not our friends and I entirely agree with the assessment of our intelligence community," McConnell said in a statement to the Courier Journal on Monday.

Rep. John Yarmuth, the lone Democrat from Louisville, said he believes Russia unequivocally meddled with the 2016 election, according to spokesman Chris Schuler.

"President Trump showed the free world today that they cannot rely on the U.S. as an ally because Vladimir Putin now calls the shots," Yarmuth said in a statement. "This is a disgraceful chapter in American history and proof that U.S. interests are not even a factor in the decision making of this president."

Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump shake hands during their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin wait for a working lunch meeting at Finland's Presidential Palace on July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, Finland.
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An individual, seated with the American press corps in Helsinki, holds a sign about nuclear weapons, prior to the beginning of a joint news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland.
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